Thanks for the advice Webfilms. Working in SD seems a good way to go, just thinking of the HD issues you mentioned. As I’ve got a Cinewave RT system here I think I can work in targa cine 16.
The film is actually 25 years old so converting it to digital format is as much an exercise in archiving and restoration in addition to creating a commercial DVD. I’m thinking the best way to go for restoration work is to have the Telecine outfit do whatever restoration work is necessary then deliver uncompressed 10bit master on disk. Does this sound feasible?
One query on your advice, not having a digibeta deck, would I not be better working with a hard disk based original to offline/online from?
Cheers and thanks again for the input.